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| Tokyo Rattled by 6.1 Quake; No Tsunami |
| 2005-07-23 |
| Posted by:.com |
| #7 I'm here on bidness / vacay, Ship. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2005-07-23 21:26 |
| #6 Jackal - too flexible, vibrating at different periods = smashing into exterior column lines of adjacent bldgs = collapse |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-23 15:53 |
| #5 Jackal, for some reason I have more confidence in Japanese architects. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-07-23 15:07 |
| #4 Carl when did you leave NH? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-23 10:24 |
| #3 IIRC, in the Mexico City one some 15 years ago, the problem was that some buildings were flexible, and some weren't, and the former banged into the latter. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-07-23 09:59 |
| #2 That's good, Carl. It's the buildings that don't move that fall. Just stay away from the windows. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-07-23 08:24 |
| #1 I've been in numerous quakes before when I was living here in Tokyo. But, never felt the, err, "concern" that I felt up on the 35th floor of the New Otani hotel when this latest one hit. I would have given my left one to be safely down on ground level while that was going on. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2005-07-23 06:43 |